Washington, D.C. — The CCP is our most significant security and geopolitical threat. And everything they do is an act of ‘our adversaries’
Feb. 23, 2023February 23, 2023 – U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) is the ranking members of the Homeland Security subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, is a prominent member of the Senate fighting back against the aggressiveness by China’s Chinese Communist Party. Recently she joined Senator Britt joined her colleagues in introducing four pieces of legislation that are aimed at holding accountable the CCP accountable and advocating on behalf of hard-working Americans. The first was an unanimity resolution condemning the illegal incursion in the United States’ airspace by the People’s Republic of China high-altitude surveillance balloon that was a flagrant infraction of American sovereignty. The resolution was approved by the Senate in a unanimous vote the 15th of February. Second Senator Britt is co-sponsoring legislation known as the Foreign Adversary Risk Management (FARM) Act which has been introduced by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.).
The bill will clamp into the CCP’s expanding involvement in U.S. farmland and agricultural businesses by placing the secretary of Agriculture on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States; requiring the committee to scrutinize any investment that might result in foreign control over all U.S. agricultural business; including supply chains and systems for agriculture within their definitions as critical infrastructure as well as critical technologies to be used in reviewing investments in this manner and directing for each of the Department of Agriculture and the Government Accountability Office must each examine and report on foreign influence within the U.S. agricultural industry. China and other countries continue to pose a significant threat to our country’s agricultural industry. As per the USDA’s 2021 study foreign investors own approximately 40 million acres U.S. agricultural land, which has increased by 2.2 million acres each year since 2015.
Then is next, Senator Britt was a cosponsor of cutting-off the communist profiteers ( CCP) Act. The proposed part of legislation is designed to prohibit any ex- U.S. presidential appointees from being knowingly associated with, aiding or consulting on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party and Chinese military corporations. The last item of legislation is the Protecting America from Spies Act. Senator Britt has co-sponsored the bill, which amends Section 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to allow the Department of State to deny visas to people who have committed crimes of intellectual property theft or espionage in this country. United States. This bill is aimed at Chinese Communist Party spies that are involved in espionage targeting American businesses and companies in the field of technology.
“The spy balloon is only the most recent and apparent example of an ever-growing pattern of aggressive behavior from China’s Chinese Communist Party,” senator Katie Britt. “There can be no question that the CCP is the biggest threat to our national security and geopolitics and that everything they do is viewed as an attack on us. The FBI has confirmed that they initiate new counterintelligence cases against China approximately every two days. From theft of our intellectual property and monitoring our children using TikTok as well as purchasing American farms and engaging in unjust trade policies that undermine Alabama the shrimpers and makers of steel, we have to be able to hold China accountable. CCP accountable. We do this by demonstrating strength and not weakness that’s why I’m dedicated to improving our intelligence and defense capabilities. I’ll fight to put hardworking Alabamans first while defending our country.”
Senator Britt is also an active part of the National Security and International Trade and Finance Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
